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Erschienen in: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 2/2009

01.05.2009 | Preclinical Study

Clinicopathological features of the triple-negative tumors in Chinese breast cancer patients

verfasst von: Wen-Jin Yin, Jin-Song Lu, Gen-Hong Di, Yan-Ping Lin, Li-Heng Zhou, Guang-Yu Liu, Jiong Wu, Kun-Wei Shen, Qi-Xia Han, Zhen-Zhou Shen, Zhi-Ming Shao

Erschienen in: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment | Ausgabe 2/2009

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Abstract

In order to analyze the clinicopathological features of Chinese triple negative tumors, we performed a retrospective study of 1993 female unilateral breast cancer patients undergoing surgery in Cancer Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Survival curves were performed with Kaplan–Meier method and annual recurrence hazard was estimated by hazard function. We observed that the rate of larger tumors in triple negative patients was higher than that in HR+/ERBB2− women, but lower than that in ERBB2+ subgroup (P = 0.0001). In addition, 21.83% of triple negative patients had four or more axillary lymph nodes involved as compared to 27.40% of ERBB2+ women and 22.75% of HR+/ERBB2− subgroup (P = 0.0056). In the survival analysis, we found a statistical significance for recurrence-free survival (RFS) among the three subgroups (P = 0.0037), with the rate of 72.89% for ERBB2+ patients, 78.40% for HR+/ERBB2− ones and 75.76% for triple negative ones at the 11th year respectively. When it came to hazard peaks, discrepancies existed in different subgroups. Similar to HR+/ERBB2− patients, triple negative subgroup showed an early major recurrence surge peaking at approximately year 2.5 as opposed to ERBB2+ counterparts with a tapering sharp at the 1st year. Furthermore, the first peak of triple negative tumors was higher than that of HR+/ERBB2− patients, but lower than that of ERBB2+ ones. Therefore, our findings suggested biological characteristics and prognostic outlook of Chinese triple negative breast cancers might be more favorable and somewhat different from those in Western populations.
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Metadaten
Titel
Clinicopathological features of the triple-negative tumors in Chinese breast cancer patients
verfasst von
Wen-Jin Yin
Jin-Song Lu
Gen-Hong Di
Yan-Ping Lin
Li-Heng Zhou
Guang-Yu Liu
Jiong Wu
Kun-Wei Shen
Qi-Xia Han
Zhen-Zhou Shen
Zhi-Ming Shao
Publikationsdatum
01.05.2009
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Breast Cancer Research and Treatment / Ausgabe 2/2009
Print ISSN: 0167-6806
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7217
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-008-0096-0

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